As part of a series of presentations from five of Macy's, Inc.'s (NYSE:M) top female executives at the annual Shoptalk conference in Las Vegas, today the company announced the upcoming launch of three key initiatives bringing new experiences to its stores...

The most recent short interest data has been released for the 02/15/2019 settlement date, and we here at Dividend Channel like to sift through this fresh data and order the underlying components of the S&P 500 by "days to cover." There are a number of ways to look at short data, for example the total number of shares short; but one metric that we find particularly useful is the "days to cover" metric because it considers both the total shares short and the average daily volume of shares typically traded. The number of shares short is then compared to the average daily volume, in order to calculate the total number of trading days it would take to close out all of the open short positions if every share traded represented a short position being closed.

U.S. stock futures decline amid a series of geopolitical risks that trimmed risked appetite; Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell will testify before a Senate committee on Tuesday; the SEC asks a judge to hold Tesla's Elon Musk in contempt of court; Home Depot, Macy's and Palo Alto Networks report earnings.

Global stocks pulled away from multi-month highs Tuesday amid a series of geo-political risks that trimmed risked appetite in the Asia region and could ripple into the U.S. trading session ahead of key housing data and Senate testimony from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.